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" I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters, for whom we are beholden to... "
The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical ... - Seite 228
von Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1882
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The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the author ..., Band 1

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 Seiten
...Edinburgh and Oxford.* Other friends, besides Mr. Strahan, regretted his departure. Mr. Hume wrote; "I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our...of the latter, which we once lay our fingers upon." Franklin replied ; " Your compliment of gold and wisdom is very obliging to me, but a little injurious...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and ...

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 Seiten
...Edinburgh and Oxford.* Other friends, besides Mr. Strahan, regretted his departure. Mr. Hume wrote; "I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our...of the latter, which we once lay our fingers upon." Franklin replied ; " Your compliment of gold and wisdom is very obliging to me, but a little injurious...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin

Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 Seiten
...you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and...of the latter which we once lay our fingers -upon." In March of the same year he received a letter from his wife, announcing the death of her mother, Mrs....
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin; with Selections from His Miscellaneous Works

John Stanley (printer.) - 1849 - 178 Seiten
...hemisphere. America has sent us many good things,—gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c., but yon are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great...of the latter, which we once lay our fingers upon." Franklin replied—" Your compliment of gold and wisdom is very obliging to me, but a little injurious...
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The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...of my days in." On hearing that Franklin was about to return to America, David Hume wrote to him: " I am very sorry that you intend soon to leave our...man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." During a second visit to Scotland, in 1771, Franklin passed some three weeks in Edinburgh, during which...
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The Ashlar, Band 2

Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1857 - 578 Seiten
...period, the philosophic Hume, wrote to Franklin as he was leaving England to return home in 1762: "I am sorry that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere....great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day — "He has in no instance exhibited...
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Perseverance Under Difficulties, as Shown in the Lives of Great Men

Perseverance - 1862 - 310 Seiten
...— " I am very sorry that you intend to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good thiugs, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c., but you...man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." On his return to Philadelphia he received the thanks of the Assembly for his many services to Pennsylvania,...
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The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography, with ...

Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 Seiten
...America .has sent us many good things, — gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo (7), &c. ; but ^ou are the first philosopher, and, indeed, the first...man of letters, for whom we are beholden to her." During a second visit to Scotland, in 1771, Franklin passed some three weeks in Edinburgh, during which...
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Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867

Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 756 Seiten
...period, the philosophic Hume, wrote to Franklin as he was leaving England to return home in 1762 : " I am sorry that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere....great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day, — " He has in no instance exhibited...
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Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867

Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 766 Seiten
...our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, <fec.; but you are the first philosopher, and, indeed, the...great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her." And most justly did Sir Humphrey Davy say of him at a later day,—"He has in no instance exhibited...
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